[15648] in APO-L
Re: APO-L Digest - 14 Nov 1996 to 15 Nov 1996
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oz, the Great and Terrible,)
Sat Nov 16 22:55:06 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:38:36 -0500
Reply-To: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199611161716.MAA10977@anvil.gatech.edu> from "Robert Dean" at
Nov 16, 96 11:14:52 am
Bravely and without thought to personal injury, Robert Dean said:
> In this case I don't see how the needs of the many are served by forcing an
> all-male chapter to go co-ed. Certainly the impact of this resolution
> outside of those chapters is minimal. The only people affected are the
> members and "potential" members of that chapter...and certainly in a
> great many cases, there are other opportunities for L, F, and S outside of
> APO (I know those are also the cardinal principles of CircleK, for example).
Please don't think that I am flaming you. That is not my intention. I
merely wish to point out that the fact that there are other service (or
leadership or fellowship) available to women at co-ed campuses with single
sex APO chapters in no way mitigates the fact that APO is practicing
gender discrimination.
Try looking at it this way. Would it be acceptable for a chapter to
discriminate against a prospective (potential) pledge because that person
was black (or any other racial group)? If not, why would it be right to
prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender, but not on the basis of
race?
Other brothers of good concious obviously disagree with me, but I truely
cannot see any practice of our Fraternity that would offer compelling
reason to discriminate against approximately half of the population of a
given school.
YiLFS,
Charlie Smith
Pledge Trainer and Parlimentarian
Gamma Zeta
Georgia Institute of Technology
--
"[The] whole struggle in this country to give equal rights and equal
privileges to all citizens of the United States has been an unpopular one;
that we have been forced to struggle against passions and prejudices
engendered by generations of wrong and oppression."
Sen. Henry Wilson (R) c.1868
